Relative clauses презентация

about people or things we are talking to, without a need to repeat the name
e.g. That is the house. The house was built on the main road.
That is the house which was built on the main road.

by a pronoun or a relative adverb. The most frequent ones are:
who; whom; which; that (only in defining relative clauses) and relative adverbs: where; when; why.

but it is more common to place prepositions at the end of the sentence (and it is more usual in spoken English).

e.g. This is the boy about whom you were asking me
This is the boy (who) you were asking me about.

Only whom and which, you can’t use it with ‘that’

them, the meaning will be incompleted. That is why you write them without commas. (oracions especificatives)

The computer which we bought is very expensive
The man who is coming will bring us the present

relative clauses.
The man who visited yesterday is an actor
The house that was so old was rebuilt.
But if it’s not the subject it can be omitted
the man (whom/that) I met at the party told me the truth
The house (which/that) we bought is very comfortable

be omitted. If the relative is followed
by a subject + verb, then it’s almost sure you can
drop it
whose can’t be omitted, though it’s never a
subject
e.g. the horse whose leg you broke had to be killed
‘what’ means ‘el que’ ‘les coses que’ and is used when the antecedent is understood
e.g. I know what you did last summer.

there’s no problem to understand the main sentence, since it gives extra information. Thus, we write it between commas.
e.g. The European Police Force, which began working in 1999, is called Europol.

thing and it contains a possessive like ‘my’, ‘his’, ‘her’, the definite article ‘the’ or demonstratives like ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘these’ or ‘those’:
My house, which is quite comfortable, needs
redecorating.
This book, which I bought last week, is not as interesting as I thought.

omitted
It’s less frequent than defining relative clauses. It is more formal and usually used in written texts.

be omitted.